beer pairing dinners

i love a beer pairing dinner!
(okay, i pretty much always love it when someone else cooks and there's beer!)

i went to cork & fin's beer pairing dinner last wednesday night
featuring six courses of delicious food
and six wonderful brews (including a cask) from moon under water

i got to tap the cask!
my first-ever cask tapping! and i didn't even fuck it up!

course one:

SEAFOOD SCOTCH EGG

Caviar, Micro Greens, Saffron Oil

‘Pots Pils Unfiltered’ Pilsner

course two:

SALMON ‘PASTRAMI’

European Style Sausage, House Mustard,
Pickles, Rye Bread

‘Tranquility’ India
Pale Ale

course three:

SAVOURY DOUGHNUT

Pork Belly, Crackling, Sauce Mornay

‘The Victorious’
Weizenbock

course four:

PANKO FRIED OYSTERS

Local Oysters, Frites, Stout Tartar Sauce

C & F – Moon
Oyster Stout

course five:

POT PIE

Oxtail, Braised Vegetables, Puff Pastry

Single Moon Batch Red
Wheat Wine Ale ‘Year 1’

course six:

STICKY TOFFEE
PUDDING

Dunkel Sabayon

‘Creepy Uncle’
Dunkel

it was a truly delightful night
good company, delicious food, brilliant beers and nice pairings
totally worth the $59

i also went to a long table dinner at the pumphouse in richmond last saturday night
the pumphouse is launching a new locally sourced, fresh and sustainable menu
so they invited a few lucky people out to give feedback on the new foods, and paired them all with beer!
lucky, lucky me to be one of those fortunate souls!
it was delicious!
the only problem? too much food and beer. i barely made it to the end of all five courses and it took me an extra hour or two to finish all the beer. oh, and i put on two pounds... first world problems!

i didn't always love beer - there was a time in the distant past where i just didn't have a taste for it. fortunately my taste buds changed just around the time folks started brewing really tasty beer. my love affair with beer began. slowly at first, eventually blowing itself up into my current obsession with all things beer. i really like drinking beer. i also enjoy reading about beer, talking about beer, thinking about beer and watching people brew beer.